Video: How to see music: visualization of playing stringed instruments
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
As Frank Zappa once said, “”, however, artists and photographers alike disagree with the musician - music can be captured, and if not in words, then in images. One of the photographers suggested paying attention not to the sound waves themselves, but to the movement of the bow when playing string instruments. Backlit by LED bulbs, the bows began to create a visible analogue of a piece of music.
Photographer from Ontario Stephen Orlando (Stephen Orlando) says his light music project was inspired by the violin experiment by artist Gjon Mili back in 1952. He combined stroboscopic light and long exposure, which is why several movements of one musician could be seen in one picture at once. Stephen Orlando decided to take a slightly different path and instead of external light, he attached permanently lit LED lights directly to the bows.
"It was necessary for either the performer or the camera to move to capture a tangle free and consistent wave of movement. I found it easier to move the camera. The LEDs were programmed to change colors to convey a sense of time. Light waves respond with sound and" move "in the photographs on the left to the right when playing the violin, and also from top to bottom when capturing cello playing. This is not a photo overlay, this is a one-shot shot, there was no post-processing, no manipulation in photo editors."
Nigel Stanford's music video is also based on the desire to show music visually, but for this Nigel used cymatics - the science of visible sound and vibration. His video turned out to be extremely exciting.
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